Red Snapper and Home-made Pesto sauce

The recipe for this dish came to me in a most unexpected way. It happened while I was recovering from my fourth trip into space. I was laying on my couch with a bottle of Wild Turkey and watching Fraggle Rock when all of my perceptions turned Sideways. The world as I had known it ceased to make sense, in a way that words can not fully do justice. I could hear smells, taste sights, and feel tastes.
Wild Turkey feels terrible, and Fraggle rock is delicious.

Luckily, this not being my first brush with psychic invasion, I knew that this was simply a precursor to a message sent through thought. I attempted to drink some more of the Turkey, to fortify my fragile state, and ended up giving myself a most complex set of sensations when I inevitably poured the bottle all over my neck and chest. While screaming at my misfortune, the message finally arrived, and the power of it rocked me clear off of the couch.

"Traveller! You have broken free of the constraints of your world! Your mind can now handle the complexities of the mysterious wonders of 'SPAAAAACE FOOOOOOOD'"
My reply came quickly, "OW. OW OW OW OWWWWWW." This being was speaking far too loudly for a man in the throws of a bourbon recovery process.
"Traveller, You will now recieve your first SPACE COOKING LESSON"
It was then that what I can only refer to as cosmic forces lifted me from the couch and began to float me towards the window. In a moment of clarity I was able to grab a sock from the ground in a last ditch attempt to cover my nudity before being whisked out the window and floated into public.
So I floated down the street in a haze, my left foot fully clothed and still reeling from the psychic control. All of my attempts to communicate with the being were being thwarted and came out as only mumbles and sqwaks. Luckily it was three A.M. and there were a minimum of pedestrians to be beset upon by my hovering nude mumbling form.
The hour did present problems once I arrived at the grocery store, which had been closed for some 5 hours. Luckily the front window was only single pane glass, and I was able to be thrown through it without too much difficulty! Twenty minutes and a full basket of groceries later and I was whisked back home.
Once there the presence guided me through the creation of this fancy feast:

Red Snapper Fillet

(for the Pesto)
Basil (shredded)
Garlic (finely Chopped)
oregano
olive oil
balsamic vinager
Lemon Juice
(basically just mix well)
(Feta if you are feeling extra cosmic)

Mix up the pesto Sauce, then pour over the Red Snapper. Put in a Large baking pan and cover with tinfoil, bake for about 15 minutes at 450 degrees.
Get fancy and Lay the Snapper onto a bed of spinach on the plate (sure to impress!)
Bone Ape-tit!

Recipe for Seafood Jamble!

Hey, sorry I didn't put up the recipe for the Jamble, but I was writing it fairly late at night and basically decided against it. Lucky for you, you now get to experience a recipe by me! Now I'm going to be quite clear about this from the start, most of my recipes I make kind of loosely. Most of my measurements are 'to taste' or 'a pinch/dash' and other nonsense. That being said, I'm going to warn you that most of my recipes will actually just be ingredients list, and a rough guideline as to how or in what order they were prepared.
Now, for the Jamble.
Ingredients:
Cilantro
Jalepno peppers
Chili pepper
Garlic
Onions
Prawns
Mussles
Oysters
Sausage
Hot sauce
Tomatoe Sauce
Cumin
Pepper
Fettucini

Preparation:
In a large pan (a very large pan) lightly saute the garlic and onions.
Add the prawns clams and mussles, stirring until fully cooked, adding the hot sauces and peppers.
Add the tomatoe sauce to gain volume and proper sauce consistancy, and add cilantro.
Pour onto the fettucini that you should have already prepared.
Eat.

yeah, thats about it for the recipe for the Seafood Jamble, Enjoy!

The Seafood Jamble

Today's dish, the first to appear on Hell Yeah I Can Cook, is an old stand-by I refer to as the 'Sea-food Jamble'. I first Came across this dish on an excursion into the vast system of tunnels beneath the city of Leaf Rapids Manitoba.
I had spent numerous hours spelunking and exploring, hearing rumors of a powerful secret hidden deep beneath the town. The Deeper I went into the earth, the more believable the rumors became. Surrounded by darkness, seeing only within the 6 foot radius of the light from my lantern, I could feel an presence almost otherworldly in nature following my every move. I almost turned back as slowly my movements became less and less confident, fear creeping into my bones.
My tenacity saw me through though! After the incredible struggle to overcome my fear, and force myself onward, the floor giving way beneath me increased my progress ten fold.
After what I can only assume were a few hours unconscious (Luckily I was wearing my Pith Helmet!) I awoke to find something that to this day can only be describe was one of the top fifty most incredible things I have ever seen. Well, it can also be described as an underground cathedral peopled entirely by the re-animated corpses of monks covered in a bio-luminescent fungus. I had been laid on the altar of the cathedral while the monks were seemingly tending to my wounds. They silently went about their tasks while I struggled to clear the fog from my head and ensure that what I was witnessing was actually happening. Slowly, as my wits returned I began to become more aware of the Monks' methods. The familiar smells of Chili peppers and Cilantro wafted to my nose, and I noted that I was being restrained.
That is when I saw the Cave-Prawns.
A Cave-Prawn, it turns out, is a great and terrible beast. Roughly 18 times the size of a regular prawn, covered in spikes as sharp as Razors. The Monks were herding them into the Cathedral much like cattle, slowly lining them along the pews. A monk dressed slightly different from the others, whom I assumed was the head of the fungal monastery, walked among the prawns and was inspecting each for any imperfections. The brightness of its luminescence, the twitching of its feelers, and the toughness of its shell were all subjects of scrutiny. Soon Two had been chosen and brought to the altar on which I was held. The head monk then took out a large hooked blade from somewhere beyond my field of vision, and began to flay and skin the beasts.
Much to my surprise There were smaller creatures living within, and apparently feeding off of the Prawns. Smaller shelled beasts that acted as extra protection to the prawns, they too were removed and prepared. The head monk, now quite clearly the cook of the bunch, set about silently directing the others in fetching numerous other powders and substances that were added into a massive Cauldron, heated by unnatural purple flames. I was then overpowered by the smells akin to Onions, Garlic, and Tomatoes, with faint whiff of what I swear must of been cumin.
It was when I saw the Cook monk preparing sausage skins out of a thin malleable fungus and looking at me from the sockets of his chipped and crusted skull that I had finally had enough. Luckily this was not my first (nor my last) encounter with glowing-subterranean-mind-control-fungus and knew the specific frequency to whistle to render it powerless for the span of 8 minutes.
Letting out a long high twoot I was able to wriggle free of my now incapacitated captors. Checking my person to make sure I still had my belongings, I found my adventure backpack laying behind the altar. I quickly pulled out one of my specimen jars (thankfully unbroken) and wrenched the head off of the cook monk to store for future investigation. Finally being able to see the Sepulcher in its full glory I was able to make out a series of symbols inlayed into the stained glass windows. Quickly deducing that they were in fact ingredients to making the dish I was about to belong to, I orated the recipe into my recorded and departed post haste.
Although I have had to make some certain adjustments to my Seafood Jamble (namely the lack of a human sacrifice) the majority of the ingredients are similar enough as to allow for a mighty tasty dish!

A Fresh Start!

Hello, and welcome to the first edition of my new blog, "Hell Yeah I Can Cook." Here I will be posting various dishes that I cook each evening, and the stories behind their creation. I will try to post pictures of the meal whenever possible, and might include recipes if I think I want to.
The main inspiration behind this came to me when a friend of mine told me he was going on a raw food diet in an attempt to get healthy. He also talked about keeping a blog about his experiences with the process. It got me thinking. I realized just how much I really love the hell out of food. I like cooking it, I like eating it, and I really can't see myself being deprived of all the rich variety there is out there. Also I figure constantly tempting my friend with food would make his diet all the harder, and being an asshole, that really appealed to me.
So welcome to the Culinary institute of Rad, take a seat anywhere you like.